Whoa ! If you recall WannaCry, a researcher fairly early on stopped the hack. Now allegedly arrested !

fred walton added,

Joseph Cox@josephfcox

Breaking: researcher who stopped the WannaCry outbreak arrested by US authorities after DEF CON; detained in Nevada https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywp8k5/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us-after-def-con…